March 21

Doctor Who: Scherzo

Hey Guys,

let’s talk about Scherzo of Doctor Who. It is part of the main range of the Doctor Who audio story – to be excatly number 52. To be clear it is maybe not a good starting point for people, who don’t know much adventures of the eighth Doctor and don’t know Charley (Charlotte Pollard). Like you maybe know for me it was like that. Of course… i had the same problem with the last companions Fitz and Anjal.

It is the first adventure that plays in the Divergent Universe. The problem with it is that you need the story before to fully understand what is happing. So beaware that now everything can be a spoiler.

Charlotte Pollard

She is one of the human companion of the Doctor. She seems to have a interessting timeline. Because she is the companion of the eighth Doctor, but later she apparently travels with the sixth Doctor.
So it seems that the eighth Doctor saved Charley from her death that seems to be a fixpoint in time, what breaks the law of time and the time lord handled it with exile him in to the Divergent Universe and Charley is following him there.
Later she meets the sixth Doctor what is problematic because of the foreknowledge of his future. Even later the Doctor have to explain his actions to her.

Start of the Story

We get through in the story. The Doctor is exiled and have to choose to go in the light or the dark. The light is like we get to know the Divergent Universe. But this isn’t the decision of the Doctor it is the decision of Charley. The Doctor seems in this story to be again on a point were he give up (what seems to be a habid of the eighth Doctor). He wants to die.
Charley in this story is really sympatic to me. She isn’t to let the Doctor throw shit at her and that what he does the whole time. He is that asshole timelord we all love once in a while. The first two episodes were almost just the two of them fighting or ignoring each other.

Boring?

Does it sound boring maybe. But it is an amazing story and it give the characters so much time to shine and struggle. We just have the two of them and we can see so much of how it looks like in them. We hear Charley struggling with the way the Doctor is dealing with things. Also apparently the Doctor told her that he loved her, but know he tells her that he didn’t mean it. Charley get’s really emotional and i think everyone can feel with her hear. The Doctor is just like really you want to this things now? And to be truthful this is a side of the Doctor i missed. Totally don’t get why somethings seems so important to human, just things about the mystery and giving everyone the fault just not himself.

Fighting back?

This story shows us a perfect inside of the Doctor and why he chooses this companions. This Story is characterisation of him. Everything is so much the Doctor. This is the most interessting in this story to see which things you find in every Doctor and the things that just are the parts of the eigtht. It is amazing how the Doctor is charactisated here. Charley also is fighting her place into my heart.

If you want a really good story, with really good character inside. Listen to Scherzo. It is really amazing. I love it already really much. I hope Big Finish never stops make such amazing stories.

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March 14

UNIT: Snakeheads

He Guys,
i found time to hear the second story about UNIT. I like it and i am becoming a big fan of the new team even without the Brig.

Intro

The start is a little special. At the beginning we just here a lot of noices and than someone speaking in an other language. To tell the truth i hate the beginning. At first i thought that something was wrong about the CD, but than i got it and when i listend again it just got on my nerve. Most of the time i just skip it. But it is nice because you are in the story and are totally clueless.

The team

Emelie and the ??? working together outside of London. He gets really sympatic. I like how he is moody and wants his coffee. I get warm with him. He is intellegent and open minded, even when he didn’t believe in most things UNIT deals with. But he is learning fast and i like the dynamic which is built here between the two.

Story

Here we go. They hunt a invisible vampire, which is really fun because you never know if this is real. They could just hunt a fantasy and this with someone which has a hard time to believe all that stuff. So yeah the story is fun to listen.

So the next is waiting for me.

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February 28

DW: Companion Chronicles – Memory Cheats

Hey Guys,
here we go to the second part of Zoes Story of the Companion Chronicles. It plays in Zoes present 2109 and the adventure take place in 1919 August. In the timeline of the Doctor it is placed between the stories Krotons and the seed of death.

the Company

We don’t know much about the company. Just that they are really interessting in her travelings with Doctor and that they intaned to use this knowledge but Zoe didn’t want to help them. So know she brought her in. But she doesn’t remember the Doctor anymore. The woman that question her know, believe she found the evidence for the time travel. So Zoe begann to tell the story.

What happend?

Children just disepair. They are trying to help them. They investigate the disapier. They found out that the creature was crashlanding there, because get shoot in the war. In the spaceship they found the children alive. The creature had seeing the war and everything that happend to that children. He wanted to save them. He wanted to make them safe. The Doctor agreed with the creature and told them that they never saw their parents again. That inflict a terror in the children and also in the creature. That is when everything turns bad.

I don’t want to tell here more because what Zoe did is amazing. I love it. This more about the present and Zoes Story than about the Story with the Doctor.

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February 21

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Trouble in Paradise

Hey Guys,
welcome back to the 6th adventure of the Destiny of the Doctor serie. This story plays on the Santa Maria in 1492 with the sixth doctor and Peri. Just from the start that is not my story…

Characters

Everyone, who follows me know that i am not a big Fan of Peri. It must set place after the ‘timelash‘ because she mentioned it in this story. It is really hard for me to say if this adventure had captured her correctly or not, because i don’t remember much of her character, because she wasn’t one of my favorite. But it seems to be right. The Doctor is kinda… boring…
The met Columbus, who is not really sympatic. We hear a lot of him. The whole story over we hear his logbock entries. Which is in this story for me really annoying. Maybe because Columbus is so an unsympatic character.

Heros that doesn’t must be heroic

Columbus is a hero of the Doctor. Acctually i don’t understand that. For this theme, that hero is not what he seem, could be more suitable characters. So i don’t care about him and Peri didn’t care. Also Peri didn’t see him as a hero at all. But this is a part of the fight they have. They only help the people which counts and not the little ones…

omniparadox

The whole story is not really logical… omniparadox is a thing that the eleventh Doctor needs. I do understand that it is a paradox that… yet where i think about it, it doesn’t make anysense. It is Paradox…
Back to the theme… One of the crew saw the devil and that devil is a Bovine, which tries to change the future so his herd will survive, but he is not realy good with the time travling thing.

Not my story…

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February 15

DW: The Glourious Revolution

Hey Guys,
welcome to one of my audiobooks of the Doctor Whos ‘The Companion Chronicles‘. This time it is about Jamie McCrimmon and of course Zoe and the Second doctor. It is read by Frazer Hines and he did really job. The Story takes place in London 1688, and Jamie tells it to a time lord 42 years after they take his memories away.
The Glourios Revolution plays between the adventures ‘The Space Pirates’ and ‘The War Games’.

Jamies time

This events brought Jamie to the place he was when he goes with the Doctor. He was fighting for King James II, he was believing in him and here we are and Jamie can met his King, that run away. All this events are part of Jamies life before he was going in the TARDIS. This is something important to him. That is why for the first time i remember (maybe i forgotten something) Jamie and the Doctor are fighting.
Jamie wants to change history. He wants that King James fights and don’t go hiding. The Doctor is trying to prevent it from happen. But Jamie don’t understand why. They are always changing things, they are always get mixed up in the events. Why is this different.

The Glourious Revolution

I love the Story because it shows us, what person Jamie is. He shows us that is not a warrior, that he indeed understood what was going on. He believed in his King and fought for him. It makes him angry that the call it the glourious revolution because nobody died … in England…
He referrse to to big battle: the masacer of glencoe and the battle of boyne. This is the second part i love about the story all the historic events.

Time Lords

It strart the same Zoes Story started and i was really sceptical and afraid that it takes something away form the ending of the war games, but it didn’t. It was well written and the choose that Jamie take in the end broke my heart again. It is sad. Sad that he become happy. He lived his life with no regrets. He didn’t lived his life thinking about what happen if he was going with the Doctor. He became a family and got happy. But with all the memories.. with all he had and lost, he knows, so cruel it is to his family, that it will never be enough. For Jamie this life was something more… that is why he decided to forget again.

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February 8

Doctor Who: EarthWorld

Hey Guys,
it gets complicated in EarthWorld, if you haven’t read the adventures before. So this book is issue 43 from the ‘Eight Doctor Adventures’ and was reprint for the 50th anniversary Collection. What for my thinking was a bad decision. The book is really good but to that later. But it plays with the memories of Fitz Fortune (also know as Fitzgerald Michael Kreiner) and a memory loss of the Doctor. We you don’t know what happend it is a little irritating. This time i will start with a little get too know the companions:

Fitz Fortune and Anji Kapoor

Fitz Story is really complicated when you just read a summery of it. When he first met the Doctor, the doctor travels with Samantha Jones. His travels with the Doctor are like a hop on and off bus. What i definitly know is that Fitz had take is memories and placed them in a Remembrance Tank what rebuilt him. In EarthWorld they say that is not just a copy, that he has the essance of Fitz in him. This re-remembering Fitz lifes a long time away from the Doctor. When the Doctor found him in the end he let the TARDIS re-remember the Fitz he was when they met. So they began to travel again. Than their cames the part i don’t understand, because they are taking about Gallifrey being destroyed by the Doctor – that is why the Doctor forget everything. Again Fitz and the Doctor lost each other but remet in 2001 without memories of who he is.
Anjis Story is quite simple, this book is just he second adventure with the Doctor. She is twenty-eight and had a boyfriend, actor and science fiction fan Dave Young. But he died during a Kulan invasion of Earth. She met Fitz when her boyfriend get into it and he said that the Doctor can help her. But the Doctor isn’t quite himself without memories. When her boyfriend died, she just wants back to work and grieve. But the Doctor can quite find the right time. It is a little like Tegan.

EarthWorld

So the Story plays in the year 2800 on a planet New Jupiter, with people from earth. Most people or the king is an earth fan. They try everything to be like the earth and so on. But their are also the people against it. This terror group is called ANJI.
I like the idea of the book. The new jupiter built a theme park ‘Earthworld’ and the didn’t get the history quite right. So we have a few nice thinks on that. Like the king of Rock, becomes the king of the earth. It is funny to read what they think about the earth.

Everyone against everyone

We have a lot of different interesst groups. There is the king, that just want to be the best king he could be – and so like the earth as they could be. Than there are his 3 daugthers that have totally different plans and are a little crazy. Than there is ANJI that wants to sapotage the theme park, and two other person with different interesst, that i don’t want reveal here. Because the plot is not really surprising but it would take a lot of fun out of the story if you know everything. And between all that we have our heros.

The grief

Anji has the mean part in this book and it is nice to see what she thinks. She as really nice thought like get a T-Shirt with ‘i am the main character, don’t kill me’. She doesn’t want to travel with the Doctor. She just wanted back in her life. That is what makes her really sympatic. Also i like how the book handle her grief. So we can read little messages she wants to send to her dead boyfriend.

The parts with Fitz

These parts are quite confussing. Like told you above, we get much memories of Fitz and that deficult story. They are talking about people i don’t know, Sam, Fillpa, the Compassion… it sound all really interessting, but with out any background knowledge it is just like: ‘cool, i don’t get it.

So yes i can only recommand the book, but i would advise everyone to read the 42 books before that. Because the Fitz part is really confussing.

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February 1

DW: 50th anniversary special

Hey Guys,
i rewatched the 50th anniversary special. When i watched it for the first time i kinda liked it. It was one of the better episodes but i never say it as an anniversary special…there was nothing really special… it could have been any episode… but know many thing i dislike now…

Three Doctors

I love to see David Tennant again as the Doctor. He is my favorite Doctor and always was. John Hurt is an amazing Doctor and i would have loved to see more of him. But this is just a celebration of the last years… not of all 50th years…This special shows me why i love David and why i dislike Matts Doctor so much… the Doctor forgets… i just forgets how many people he had killed. He don’t have to live with that fault like the tenth Doctor did. But how could he forget…moving on is a good thing, but forgetting not.

Bad Wolf

I am really happy that they didn’t bring Rose back, but Billie Piper. She is amazing and i love her as the Bad Wolf trying to stop the Doctor. I love how she interact and is looking at him. It is like in a way she is Rose but not the real Rose. Bring the real Rose back would have distroyed everything.

Two storys

It is for one the story of the Doctor making the decision to sacrifice Gallifrey and the story of the invasion of the Zygons. The Zygon story is not the best, but it have their moments and totally works for what it should do. But the Gallifrey story is now really bussering me. I don’t have a problem with bringing Gallifrey back. I love to see other timelords again. Of seeing Romana again. Time Lords are the best enemies ever. My problem is not even that they take that decision the ninth and the tenth Doctor have to live with from them. But watching this season before the special, makes me hate it. Because the whole season with Clara is a big friendly buttom. Nothing the Doctor does have consequenzes. He can save them, save all of them. no consequenzes. Never…

Clara and the other things…

I hate what Clara tells the eleventh Doctor. The warrior, the hero and the Doctor. That is stupid everyone of them is the Doctor. The tenth Doctor wasn’t a hero. He never was and if anyone thing about him like that, i think that they miss understood him. He was a god… a lonely god. Which makes decisions about life and death, he was someone, who thought of himself as a god, which can is own rules. He wasn’t a hero.
Also not everyone can be a hero… this is stupid a hero.. isn’t an easy think.
Also i hate the picture they are drawing of the Doctor. He always finds another way, he always saves everyone… that is not true. The first Doctor doesn’t even care about what happend to Ian and Barbara… He just thought about himself. How often did the Doctor destroyed the Daleks or did murder a race? He did it. This sacrificing Gallifrey is something the Doctor would do, can do, and did do. It is only logic for him. Everyone that thinks the Doctor could never do say a decision should watch Doctor Who again. Pompeji is only one example and when you now tell me this is something just RT Davis did, than i can only tell you watch the classic. He always did this thing.

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January 24

DW: Season 7

Hey,
i just rewatch the seventh season of Doctor Who. The season that made want to give up on this serie. The season i fought me through almost every episode just because it is Doctor Who. For everyone that find the season good i am sorry, but for me it was bad so, so, so bad. It was the worth Doctor Who season ever. The rewatch don’t make it better… it make it worse to telling the truth.

First Part

The first part of this season is all about Amy and Rory. I was so excited for the first episode, because Daleks and than that… Amy and Rory want to get divorced can it come worse… yeah the episode is just so bad… that is real life and at the end everything is back to the perfect little life they had. Not just the first episode in every episode i have the feeling that there is no love for the characters anymore. There is character developement, and the don’t get time to shine. They just there so the Doctor can look good. This fight between Amy and Rory this could have been something great, something that they can fight for. We could have seen them proving themself to each other and not just erasing it like it never happend.

The only not bad episodes are ‘Dinosaurs on a spaceship’ and ‘the power of three’ but you just can look to close. The power of three is not logical at all, but everything else is good. Why i like the dinosaurs on the spaceship is a thing that i totally miss on Doctor Who. A group of people so different that have to interact with each other. I am still thing what a great season we could have with them as companions.

Amelias Last Goodbye

This episode could have been so good. The Weaping Angels and a big dramatic final for this amazing pair. I am truthfull i also cried by the rewatch but it could have been so much better. If the angels where just like ever and when the statue of liberty would have moved… what the fuck?!
Why had they showed this as a tragic end, why must the doctor so childish and imature to see that as losing? Amy and Rory are living a good life, a happy life, that is an happy end. They would have stopped traveling with the Doctor, they almost did the last time and we all know the Doctor stays never when they stop traveling with him. Never. He left Jo, when she got married, he never visited Ian or Barbara or even Susan.

Clara Oswin Oswad

I liked Clara a lot in Asylum of the Daleks and she was fun in the really boring Christmas Special. She is an nice character and i was really happy that she would become the Doctors Companion. I thought she become a little after Zoe. But than the first really episode came with her and Moffats takes all that away. All that knowledge she has was just a gift from her time uploaded…not herself. Also after that we don’t she her use any of it. She is just like every other companion in the new Who…doing what the Doctor expacts.
I just wanted a companion like Zoe. Which is more intelligent than the Doctor, one that things faster than him, just someone that totally can win a fight with him.

The second part

Is much worse…Clara is nice to see and they are many good ideas in it. The second episode is with the singing emotional, but the story isn’t really good. I am not a big fan of the eleventh Doctor but in that part will dislike him even more. All that impossible girl talk, all that why are you special. She is special. She is special because she is just a totally normal person. An ordinary girl with choose to travel with a stranger, which wants to see adventures, a girl that don’t run, a girl that stops and fight, a girl we see struggle with the death she is seeing. That is what makes her special and the Doctor never understand that is what makes her special not that he met her three times.

Old enimies…

The ice warrior is back. What lovely monsters they are. Than the bring them back and make everything they are wrong? Why bring him back, if you change everything? A icewarrior that left his shell and is super fast? A icewarrior you reason with. He is a warhero. An icewarrior of a team they wanted war, they loved war. When the Doctor tries to reason with him, if he wants to be know as the destroyer of earth the answer would be yes. That is what the icewarriors were. That is why the Doctor don’t like them, that is why the Doctor never believed the started peace.
So we have Daleks, Ice Warrior and that is not enough… lets make a bad story about cybermen… Cybermen that are fast and upgraded so fast… it was stupid and not scary… I dislike everything in that episode. The cybermen. The Doctor and the way he fights with the cybermen…it is nice to see all the faces but that is the only thing. Also i dislike Clara here a lot. The Doctor is at fault that the children are in danger and she just accept it? He has a time maschine. He could have brought them home and than came back. But no lets bring the kids in danger and Clara is jsut standing there and says okay. She just let him search for them and became a warrior… that is not Clara… not the Clara i like…she don’t struggle anymore.

The final

It is not so bad, but they are a few points that are stupid… and i don’t talk about the Great Intellegent stuff(which still don’t remember) that was totally stupid. I like the idea with Clara, because that is something Clara would do. But i hate that the whole season is a big friendly button. Nothing in that season has consequenzes. Jenny dead, but that Strax bring her back. Than Strax and Jenny dead again and they come back to life. Clara springs in that time stream to die but of course the Doctor brings her back. The Doctor should never visited Tranzalore but it just have no consequenzes…
Also i dislike that final wasn’t a final. It just was a prologe to the 50th anniversary special.

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January 23

Kaito Kid: Season 1 – Part 1

Hey Guys,
after a long time i found time to watch Kaito Kid. I love Kaito Kid. He is a great character and the episodes with him are one of the best in Detektiv Conan. I always role for him and not for Conan. There are a few things that totally could find more screen time in Detektiv Conan.
Many people which just watching Detektiv Conan, have a wrong picture about Kaito and Sugaru. Kaito Kid returns all the things he stole, because he just trying to find the murder of his father. The second thing is that Sugaru knows that Kaito Kuruba is Kaito Kid and that they have with all that knowledge interessting friendship. So what do i expect from that serie is accectly that.

Kaitos Reason

One of the strong points of the Anime are that they point the things out. Kaito Kid is stealing as long as he search for the murder of his father. The give this time it deserves and shows us that he did return all the things he stole. That is really important because this is the biggest part of Kaitos character. He wants to entertain people, he wants to make them laugh, to believe in miracles. He is a good person. A person who wants to protect people that are close to him but also everyone else.

Family

Here we have to points to talk about. First of all, i like how they portayed the relationship of the Nakamuras and the Kurubas. That the Nakamuras are Kaitos family is becoming here much clearer than in the manga. But also the are giving his mother and father a backstory, that isn’t in the manga and really is for my a little stupid and like everyone is saying in the anime ‘to chessy’. Also the every day a advice thing is not logic for me and is desturbing the flow of the story.

The little Storys

A good point is that they take time for the little Storys. For the story with Aoko and the adventure in the school at night. They make sure that this mostly like the Manga and that is for me a really good point. But they to a really bad thing that is totally trouble me, that is Sugaru. He is an really improtant character in the manga. He is important for Kaito and his developement, he is important for the story. He is a reason we love the serie so much. Because he and Kaito are friends in a way. But at night he is chasing Kaito and he knows. He knows that Kaito Kid is Kaito Kuruba. This is a really important thing and i don’t understand why the take that out of the serie. He was just one time there. That is not enough that is the worst.

Gueststars

Of course they did the Story with Shinichi again and also they make a story with Conan, Ran and Sonoko what is accatual really fun to watch. But the Story with mother is just not mine. So no… also Kaito kid is inspired by the fiend with twenthy face and to make a another version of this it just seems to much.
The Fiend with twenthy face is a really good character and i love to read the books over him and if you interessted in crime storys and like the japanese style of writting just go and buy the rampo edogawa storys.

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January 17

DW: Destiny of the Doctor – Smoke and Mirrors

Hey Guys,
so here we have the fifth adventure of the ‘Destiny of the Doctor‘-serie with the fifth doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adirc read by Janet Fielding and Tim Beckmann. It plays in England in 1920s. Adric is still alive so it must play before Earthschock.

An old friend

The Doctor meets up with an old friend: Houdini. He met the third Doctor and Jo and on another occasion he met the first Doctor, Ben and Polly. So he knows about the incarnation and the time travel. He wants to know the future. So he is an easy target for the master to set an trap for the Doctor. Her we go with another old friend the master. I like the master but this story is just a little boring.

I heart the story just a few minutes ago but it still isn’t stay with me… there is a thing with a tiger, the master taking control, the Doctor almost died and so on.

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